1085 Czech prince Wratysław II announced king of Poland by the Emperor (according to the Czech tradition)

Bolesław Krzywousty

1102-1138

1106 Bolesław’s conflict with his brother Zygmunt

1111 or 1112 after long conflict Zygmunt returns to Poland, where he is blinded and dies

1113-16 first Polish chronicle of Anonymous Gall (Gal Anonim)

1116 Gdańsk incorporated into Poland

1119 west Pomerania incorporated

1124 changes and enlarging of church organisation in Poland (this reform will last till 17th c.)

Act of Succession →beginning of the feudal fragmentation of Poland

Władysław Wygnaniec

1138-1146

1146 – Władysław remains in a constant conflict with his stepbrothers; Church hierarchy backs the younger brothers excommunicating Władysław, who flees and the oldest of the younger brothers gains the throne in Kraków

1385 Polish-Lithuanian union in Kreva (Jogaila is to marry Jadwiga, accept Catholicism and incorporate Lithuania to the Polish state) – controversies remain even today, what was the real meaning of the union

1386 baptism of Jogaila, coronation and marriage

Władysław Jagiełło K

1386-1434

1386 Kraków privilege (he promises to nominate officials only after consulting with local lords; no high taxes; payment for wars outside the country; ransom for war prisoners by the crown) – confirmed after coronation in Korczyn

1416 Polish delegation to the Council of Constance defends Polish wars against the Teutonic order (Paweł Włodkowic and the notion of just war)

1420 Hussites offer Czech crown to Jagiełło

1422 war against the Teutonic order / nobles’s leve en masse demands privileges – privilege of Czerwińsk (noble’s property immunity – no noble may have his goods confiscated without a proper court sentence)

1423 Warka statutes – enable the nobility to remove a sołtys (land hereditary until now office of a head of a community/village) in specified cases

1424 royal decree against Hussites and practically closing of Polish-Czech border

1425 Statute of Brześć – in return for accepting Jagiellonian legacy on the Polish throne nobles demand personal immunity – the statute is not accepted by the monarch (nobles cut it up with their swords)

1430/33 Jedlnia-Krakow privilege (acceptance of royal heritage in return for Brześc deamnds) – confirmed in Kraków in 1433.